Gilles Simon

PARIS, May 25 (Reuters) - Order of play on show courts on day one of the French Open on Sunday: Play starts at 0900 GMT Court Philippe Chatrier: Petra Martic (Croatia) v 14-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 1-Serena Williams v Anna Tatishvili (Georgia) Pablo...

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Looking for signs of a rebound for U.S. men's tennis? Don't look at the seedings for this year's French Open, which begins Sunday. The highest seeded American male is Sam Querrey of Thousand Oaks, who is seeded 18th. Novak Djokovic is seeded No. 1 for...

PARIS, May 24 (Reuters) - Draw for the French Open men's singles tournament which starts on Sunday (prefix number denotes seeding): 1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v David Goffin (Belgium) Ivan Dodig (Croatia) v Guido Pella (Argentina) Alex Kuznetsov (U.S.)...

PARIS (Reuters) - Draw for the French Open men's singles tournament which starts on Sunday (prefix number denotes seeding): 1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v David Goffin (Belgium) Ivan Dodig (Croatia) v Guido Pella (Argentina) Alex Kuznetsov (U.S.) v...

By Gregory Blachier and Chrystel Boulet-Euchin PARIS, May 23 (Reuters) - After 30 years without a male grand-slam winner, France's tennis establishment is beginning to question whether the absence of success is purely down to a lack of natural-born...

May 20 (Reuters) - May 20 (Reuters) - ATP World Tour rankings on Monday (last week's positions in brackets): 1. (1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 12310 points 2. (2) Andy Murray (Scotland) 8670 3. (3) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 8000 4. (5) Rafa Nadal...

(Reuters) - Defending champion Rafa Nadal recovered from losing the opening five games against Ernests Gulbis to book his place in the quarter-finals of the Rome Masters on Thursday. The Spaniard, looking for his seventh Rome title, was shaken by a...

MADRID (Reuters) - Andy Murray's latest bid for a maiden clay title ended when he fell to Tomas Berdych in the Madrid Open quarter-finals on Friday, leaving Rafa Nadal as the only member of the 'big four' still alive at the Masters event. World number...

MADRID (Reuters) - Roger Federer's hopes of claiming a second straight Madrid Open title were dashed when the world number two suffered a surprise 6-4 1-6 6-2 third-round defeat to Japanese young gun Kei Nishikori on Thursday. Playing his first...

MADRID, May 9 (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal remained on course for a possible semi-final clash with great rival Roger Federer when he thumped unseeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-2 6-3 to claim a spot in the last eight of the Madrid Open on Thursday. The...

MADRID (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic was dumped out of the Madrid Open in the second round on Tuesday when he went over on his ankle and incurred the wrath of the locals on the way to a shock 7-6 6-7 6-3 reverse to Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov. The world...